MM: Don’t Miss Out!

Good morning Cadre. Happy Monday to you and yours. C. like I did. Meanwhile some individuals in my house, my mother in law's in town, my mom etc, they're watching the news and the news is just littered with negativity. And then you hop on to JC's live and it just feels good. So, so what a different way to wake up at 7:30 in the morning Central or 8:30 Central, 6:30 Mountain, 5:30 Pacific. Good morning to you and yours. Hope everybody's having a fantastic. Well, let's take a step back. Hopefully you had the best weekend ever.

Hopefully had a good weekend. Hopefully it was a good rest. Hopefully it was just what you needed. Leaning into a Monday here. Hopefully everybody's feeling good, recharged, rejuvenated and feeling exactly what they need to feel right now. So good morning to everybody. Thanks for jumping on board here. Good morning. 1% better. You're the best. Good morning to you and yours. All right, let's jump in. So my title for the live today was, you know, kind of for better or worse, you're just kind of one decision away.

And this is a really interesting concept. If you take a step back and you think about like all of your life's decisions, you're just one choice away, you're just one shot away, you're one, you know, in away, you're one networking away, you're one something away. And I just have to give a couple examples. All right, so good morning. Good morning everybody. So I was 22 years old, 22, 23 years old. And I was at the University of Minnesota Duluth. And I was, I was really, really struggling with finding what it was that I thought was for me, right for schooling.

I went to econ major. I was in and out. I was led at one point stats like back to econ. I, I literally jumped through every single major that you could have jumped through because I didn't know what the h*** I wanted to do. And I was trying and I was trying and finally it was really cool because I started doing some research and I looked up and there's this really niche college out in Michigan called Ferris State University. And I looked it up and I searched it. I'm like, oh my gosh, these might be my people.

They had professional golf management, professional tennis management and a bunch of other different things. Naturally you get a business degree. But so I took a leap of faith. I knew nobody, nobody, not, not a one person. The only person I ever talked to is this gal named Diane who was an advisor. This is all true. And I moved out to Michigan in the middle of nowhere, outside Grand Rapids, which is called Big Rapids, Michigan. And when I moved out, I, like, quickly formed my new friendship group.

You know, I was going to be there for two years. I knew that for sure. So I was like, all right, let's just jump all in here, start meeting my people, figuring it all out, all of it, right? And it was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I just can't imagine if I would have stayed at UMD and have not transitioned out to Ferris State, went out to Michigan, went off to college, finished my undergrad out there. It was amazing. I mean, we can jump into the MBA program. So when I was going through a bitter divorce, there's a.

That's hard. If anybody's ever been through that before, I knew that I would have, you know, my son for X amount of time, and then 1% would be in Alaska. So you see there? Let's go. Oh, my gosh. I love that. And so I was in. Sorry, this threw me off for one second. We'll be in Alaska later this week, too. I love that you guys are going to Alaska. Some friends up there literally right now on a cruise right outside of Anchorage and such. It's gonna be amazing for them. It'll be the best. But so. So I was going through a divorce, right?

And I was explaining, like, that, you know, with my son Landon and all of it. So I was thinking, like, what could I do now that could propel my life for him and me? What could I do to propel my life for him and me? And so I. Of all things that you do when you go through a divorce. I enrolled in an MBA program. So, yep, off to a Master's of Business administration, enrolled in the program. And I'm thinking to myself, worst case scenario is I could quit. Best case scenario is I show Landon and I show my family and I show everybody that you can do insanely hard things while a tough time is happening in your life.

And I actually found solace in it, like, when everybody else is, like, going, oh, my gosh, this is. This is so hard. I'm like, this is easy. This schooling is easy. Like, watching Landon at night, working all day, going off to get an mba, doing it all this is simple because you should see the other side of, like, breaking up and going through a divorce and doing all that, right? So I just quickly realized, like, what a great decision in my life, right? So again, for better or worse, Went off to do an MBA when I didn't have to and could have just stayed working in corporate grind and all the other things.

How about Cadre? How about Cadre? Look at this, right? So just sold your organization, moving in through entrepreneurialship to say, you know, this could be a very different life for us. And instead, you know, we pushed all in on this concept and this idea of building this community of individuals that want to help one another as peers, professionals and establishing and building the Cadre platform. What if, what if we never did this? What if we never move this forward? What if my wife would say, hey Luke, I don't think this is the right time.

Instead she said, you know, go after your dreams. And that's how we're here. What if. Right? Like the hat on the friendships I have t north, heading up to Anchorage, 1% better speak, wonder. All of these friends that I have in this community that I live for, and I know that they're living for me too. Right? So just, just think about that and think about that concept for better or worse. Here's another one. It was like I was kind of feeling in a rut. I was feeling a little bit in a rut of like, you know, I just ran 100 mile race.

You know, I, I didn't know exactly what was next. And it was about four months later and it was October of 2023. And I did this thing and I did this thing called H*** on the Hill. And it was in the middle of nowhere, Rome, Georgia. H*** on the hill, middle of nowhere, Rome, Georgia. The individuals and the people that I met down in the middle of Nowhere, Rome, Georgia. There's 250 people that ran up and down this guy's driveway for over a half marathon. And it was the most amazing experience ever.

I met my buddies. Believe it or not, this is all true story. I met my buddies from Embrace north here in our backyard of Minneapolis that started their sauna company. Yep. They drove all the way down and had their saunas in the middle of nowhere, Rome, Georgia. And I'm like, where are you guys from? They're like, minneapolis. I'm like, no way. Don't believe you. But all because now Kellen's a dear friend of mine today, right? So all because of a decision to say, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna invest in myself.

I'm gonna invest in myself, I'm gonna invest in my future. I'm gonna invest in this idea of h*** on the hill in the middle of nowhere. There was a cost to it, right? No way. Someone said just left embrace. That's insane. Oh my gosh. I love it so much. Kellen is a dear friend of mine. Love him so much. He's a great guy. But that's true story. And you know, we're just one decision away, for better or worse, of a very, very different life. And sometimes there's an investment of time, sometimes the investment of money, sometimes the investment of, you know, leaving your fears behind.

Sometimes it's going into this uncomfortability of going, I don't know what this might mean, but I'm going to flip and give it a try. Those are the beautiful places. What I found is majority of times in my life, I mean, again, the decision I was going to make to go to Michigan, this was it. It was. I was going to go down to the Bahamas or Cayman Islands, specifically in bartend. I was going to go off to the guards or the army or the Navy. This is 22, 23 years old. I was going to finish up school in Michigan.

One of those three things were true, right? It was either going to be one of those and I chose the third. And so what if I would have went to the military, maybe I would have been with David Goggins. I'm just kidding. But you never know. But that's why you have all these decisions. And my wife and I always talk to our kids about inspiration and desperation in your choices. And you guys have heard me talking about this a lot. So you can either make really inspired choices or you can make very desperate choices.

But no matter what, you're going to make a choice. And I always say the most inspired choices have changed my life for the most. Okay. The most desperate choices have also changed my life, but in a very different, negative way. When I make desperate choices or I've got to try to find my way to dig out because I'm stuck somewhere. So when you start in with this choice kind of paradigm, if you will, of left to right, middle and everything in between, when you can really start making some inspired choices decisions in your life, you have no idea what's on the other side of that.

But I'm going to tell you it's going to be great. If you're going to push your chips in and change the narrative of your life, because it's investing in yourself, trying something new, stretching your, letting yourself fly, all of it. H***, I promise you it'll be a better day tomorrow than it was today. Right? All right. So just a couple housekeeping things that I want to Share number one, if you go into your feed, if you go into your feed right below the live streams, okay, right below the live streams there's a little thing over on the right and it says everything and then it'll have the option of how you want to prioritize your feed.

You can pick most popular live streams, videos, posts, you can check all of it and it is, it is utterly amazing. So you can go down, you can switch most popular, you can try these things. I encourage you to play around and mess with it. All you have to do is switch back to everything and everything and that's the normal feed. But just mess around, go play around. I think you're going to be able to find some things quick and fast. Our goal is quick to navigation for all of our Cadre friends and family and users.

Right? So that's number one housekeeping. Number two, I have a the step tracker for competing against me on steps. The one thing of it, the thing of it is is I don't necessarily like it because it's, it's for some reason not counting all my steps. So I have the Oura ring, I have the Fitbit deal but the steps. So just bear with me for a couple days here while I find a different tracking device for our step challenge. If you do beat me in the steps that currently exist and you're going to log in, I will still honor that and get you whatever Cadre swag you would like.

But I just highly, I highly encourage you all to compete against me on steps and let's see where that goes. But I'm going to probably figure out a different step tracker just because I'm not a big fan of this one. It's just not counting things as accurate as I want. T. North says. Love it. So true. Love it. Thanks for sharing. Getting out of your neural pattern ruts. That's how you learn and grow. My biggest growth in my life has getting out of uncomfortability when I am comfortable is when I am not my best self.

I will just say that right now when I am my best self is when I stretch and I push and I grind and I try and I do things new and I get it. Like we are a mental health and wellness platform and that may ruffle some feathers in regards to, you know, pushing yourself and doing what you need to do. But I just find myself for example like yesterday 34,000 step day. And why is because that feels good to me. I love working outside. I love taking the wood from one side to the other, burning A bunch of brush doing what I want to do outside.

I love those days. That makes me so happy. I have think tank time all day when I do things like that. So a nice little, you know, d*** near 35,000 step day felt phenomenal and it was good for me. For somebody else, they need a Sunday rest and they need to sleep and they need to nap and they need to do what they need to do. That's great and that's you, for better or worse. It's not me, but. All right, you guys. So a couple things there, like I shared, you know, we're one decision away, we all know that.

Number two, the feed. The feed feature is utterly amazing. How you can switch now from popular videos lives, all of it to like just quickly get what you want, when you need it, how you need it and why you need it, which is really cool. We got many more features coming down the path to come down the pike here. It's beyond exciting. And then the step challenge that I was going to have, if, if you go and register and you beat me in steps, by all means I'm going to hold, you know, true to my word. But I'm going to find a different tracker for next week because it's just not working appropriately.

And then one last one, one last one, one Last 1. The 307k club. Just want to give it up to shout out to my buddy Jason Lennox. Again, you're going to hear me keep talking about this. For the next month he is going to be walking in 307 miles from Ohio to Nashville and I will be joining him at the end of September heading into October to walk all the way across and see. Oh, love the water scene in your background. So do I. It's one of the things that just make me happy. I always like to go for a walk, h*** or hot water in the morning, grab my coffee and I like to always walk by the lake here in White Bear Lake.

It always makes me feel good. So there we have it guys. Have a phenomenal week. I can't wait for the live streams and for everybody showing up pre recorded content. The posts that happen in Cadre are just the best. Just makes me feel good. All right, take you guys. Take care you guys. Peace. Have a wonderful week. Thanks for showing up. Thanks for being part of the family here. We will be seeing you all very, very soon. Thanks again. Bye bye.